My Dumb Little Brain Just Got Completely Blown After I Saw These 50 Absolutely Fascinating Pictures For The First Time Last Month

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    1. This is what an owl looks like without feathers:

    A bald, skinny bird with big eyes and claws standing on a post

    2. Michelangelo's "David" is really, really big:

    Close-up of the nude sculpture, with a person on scaffolding at the top, crouched and working on the head, who looks no bigger than the head

    3. There's a museum where you can touch a piece of the Titanic's hull:

    4. This is what the economy class meal on a Japanese airline looks like:

    5. This 440-pound gold bar, located in Japan, is the largest gold ingot in the world:

    Three people leaning over a huge block of gold on a table

    6. This is how big a nuclear cooling tower is compared to a person:

    a person standing next to a nuclear cooling tower

    7. This is how big the Eremotherium Laurillardi, also known as the giant ground sloth, was compared to a modern day human:

    A man standing next to a model of a giant sloth

    8. This is what an albino raccoon looks like:

    A person holding a cuddly white raccoon with paws that look like hands with fingers

    9. This is the unfinished portrait of George Washington that was used as a basis for the design of the $1 bill:

    An unfinished portrait of George, with less than half of it (including the entire bottom half) finished

    10. This is what Alex Trebek's Jeopardy podium looked like during a typical show:

    A podium showing a sheet of paper with clues X-ed out, contestant interview cards,  eyeglasses, a crayon, and a Final Jeopardy card

    11. Jonathan the tortoise, the oldest living animal on land, just turned 191 years young this past year:

    12. If you look at a car seat's heating system with a thermal camera, it looks like this:

    thermal view of a car seat

    13. See those little specks there? Those are baby octopuses:

    a finger pointing at tiny baby octopuses

    14. This pointy thing is what a nuclear bomb actually looks like:

    Soldiers around a nuclear bomb

    15. Andrew Jackson was one of the first United States presidents to be photographed. Here he is in 1844:

    Andrew Jackson

    16. These are the boots Gene Cernan, the last man to walk on the moon, wore on the 1972 Apollo 17 mission:

    17. This is what baby hedgehogs look like:

    Four tiny hedgehogs in a person's hand; they're hairless except for the quills on the tops of their bodies

    18. This is how big a giant squid is compared with a human being:

    A man crouching next to a squid extended along a plastic cover in a field

    19. UPS drivers have special UPS socks as part of their uniform:

    Close-up of a UPS driver's ankle UPS socks

    20. In case you didn't know, Brussels sprouts grow like this:

    Brussels sprouts growing along long plant stalks

    21. Bobsled tracks go almost completely vertical:

    A bobsled at the Olympics on a track that's perpendicular to the floor

    22. This is what's inside a bag of microwavable popcorn:

    Corn kernels in clumps connected with solid oil/butter

    23. You are, of course, familiar with Grant Wood's painting "American Gothic"...

    "American Gothic," showing the stern woman and man, who's holding a pitchfork

    24. ...well, this is what it looks like from inside the actual house in the painting:

    The inside of the attic whose window is seen at the top of the painting in the background

    25. This is what the back of the Rosetta stone looks like:

    It's behind glass and has a very uneven, scraggly surface, but no hieroglyphics

    26. This is what color Venus is in real life:

    It's an eerie, vaguely luminous white

    27. There's a trap door on the Sphinx:

    A small door at the back of the structure

    28. There was a lake in Australia named Lake Disappointment:

    A "Lake Disappointment" sign amid an arid landscape

    29. This adorable little thing is a hummingbird's feather:

    A tiny feather resting at the tip of someone's pointy finger

    30. The geographic center of the United States is here in South Dakota:

    31. These are the real-life outfits doctors would wear to treat plague patients in the 1600s:

    Doctors wearing long gowns and head coverings with just the eyes cut out and nose coverings that look almost beaklike

    32. There's a bird that looks like a strawberry that's called, well, the strawberry finch:

    A red bird with white dots

    33. Gorilla hands are much, much bigger than human hands:

    a person's hand next to gorilla hands

    34. This is a pair of one of the earliest discovered pairs of socks, made in Egypt in the 5th century:

    old Egyptian socks

    35. Before the invention of radar, this is one way people used to listen to and detect enemy planes:

    a person using a device to listen to planes

    36. Termite hills can be absolutely gigantic:

    a woman next to a termite hill

    37. Screws...screws can be really, really big:

    a giant screw

    38. While we're talking about larger than normal things, check out this giant keyboard:

    a person's hands using a giant keyboard

    39. Space and time is absolutely nuts:

    Neil Armstrong on the moon

    40. Speaking of the moon, here's how big the African continent is compared to the Moon:

    Screenshot of a Reddit post about the moon

    41. This is what a 420-pound dumbbell looks like:

    A giant dumbbell

    42. This is what a big ol' hunk of fresh wasabi looks like:

    43. There is a very real chance that Pablo Picasso listened to the song "Sweet Caroline":

    Screenshot of Pablo Picasso on a google search

    44. A pickle under ultraviolet light looks like something from a fantasy novel:

    a hand holding a pickle under ultraviolet light

    45. Lemons...lemons can be huge:

    a giant lemon

    46. This is how huge the entrance to the Roman Temple of Bacchus is:

    a woman standing at a temple entrance

    47. This is what a car cut in half looks like:

    a car cut in half

    48. This is a tarantula hawk, a wasp whose sting is known to be one of the most painful on planet Earth:

    A tarantula hawk in someone's hand

    49. This is what Shaq looks like holding a piece of paper:

    Closeup of Shaq

    50. And, finally, as of 2017 there were precisely six McDonald's on the island of Guam: